La Jolla resident wins poster contest at Legoland

Six-year-old La Jolla resident, Athena Tsai, recently won the grand prize for her age group in Legoland’s Save Our Seas (S.O.S.) poster project. Tsai competed amongst some of San Diego’s finest child artists, ranging from ages 4 to 12. Her 8-year-old sister Audrey Tsai, also qualified as a finalist.

Legoland’s S.O.S. campaign helps educate people about marine life. Through the use of poster board, markers, crayons and paint, the children strove to express their view on conserving and protecting the ocean and its creatures.

Tsai’s poster depicted the earth and the message “Save Our Seas!” Tsai, along with two other grand prize winners, received four annual passes with unlimited admission to Legoland California and Sea Life Aquarium for one year and their choice between an exclusive behind-the-scenes tour of Sea Life for the winner and his/her family or a fieldtrip for the winner’s entire class.

Although those in attendance at the new Safe, Healthy Neighborhoods Initiative (SHNI) meeting Sept. 4 in the La Jolla Library were seeking local solutions to the homelessness they’ve observed in their neighborhoods, they were met instead with broader City- and County-wide resources that address the varied facets of this very complex issue.

Sitting at the Brick & Bell coffee shop in La Jolla Shores on Sept. 4 with local residents Sandra Munson and Tim Johnson as they catch up over iced teas, one would never know that just three weeks prior, the two were undergoing surgery so Munson could donate a kidney to Johnson.